A life-sized Homer Simpson statue has been recovered and returned to the movie theater from which it was stolen, located in a popular suburban shopping mall near Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia's largest city. "This case has been solved," Mazlan Mansor, police chief of Malaysia's central Petaling Jaya district, told the Associated Press. The culprits, tracked down by local police, were allegedly just overzealous fans of "The Simpsons. "

Colorado Springs artist Jason Baalman is trying out an array of unusual mediums that can produce a picture on a canvass - be it ketchup with French fries, or chocolate syrup with a spoon. But this 30-year-old artist has an eye for technology too, as he has also painted a replica of the Mona Lisa using Microsoft's Paint accessory software. Since posting a video of himself painting portraits of Ronald McDonald and Morgan Spurlock, the creator of the documentary "Super Size Me," using ketchup and French fries on social networking website You Tube, Baalman - previously a struggling artist - has bagged a huge backlog of portrait orders.

One government official is fighting to cancel a reality television show featuring a terminally ill patient charged with picking the most deserving contestant to receive her kidney. The "Big Donor Show," is planned to air this Friday. One member of Dutch parliament is protesting the show. But advocates for the show say that it is meant to draw attention to the shortage of donated organs and the long lines for them.

The police had an easy time finding a suspect involved in the theft of handguns from a Wasilla home when the woman whose home was burglarized found the suspect in her home's garage, wearing her sweatshirt. Lisa Siepert, 38 on Sunday called the police to report that a stranger broke into her home and removed two handguns, food and alcohol. Upon searching the garage, she found an unknown man sitting inside her neighbor's vehicle.

A Texas mother, who posted a page on MySpace saying "I want my son back", is currently in jail after hiring kidnappers to steal her own son who was staying with his father. According to police, Lisa Gonzales used MySpace. com to find kidnappers willing to take the boy from his father and she allegedly offered $500 to anyone who would do the job well.